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City Manager’s Office <br />Memo <br />To: Metro I-Net Members <br />cc: Pete Bauer & Jason Swalley, Metro I-Net <br />From: Patrick Trudgeon, Roseville City Manager <br />Date: February 13, 2020 <br />Re: Metro I-Net Discussion Points <br />Metro I-Net originally started as a collaboration between Roseville and Mounds View to share <br />IT resources in 1999. Since that time, Metro I-Net has grown to 35 member organizations <br />receiving full IT services and 9 associate members receiving limited IT services. <br />Not only has the number of Metro I-Net members grown, each member agency’s needs have <br />grown exponentially. Some examples in recent years include the deployment of laser fiche, <br />remote computer access, electronic door access, wireless access points, as well as body cam <br />support for law enforcement. <br />Currently, Metro I-Net is under organizational control of the Roseville City Manager and <br />Roseville City Council. All Metro I-Net employees are actually Roseville employees and fall <br />under Roseville personnel policy, its liability coverage, and compensation structure. The <br />Roseville City Manager makes employment decisions for Metro I-Net including the hiring <br />and termination of employees. The City of Roseville includes the $3.5 million Metro I-Net <br />budget as part of its city budget. <br />While this arrangementhas worked for many years, the following issues is making it harder to <br />keep Metro I-Net sustainable into the future: <br />Roseville City Council concern about the amount of Metro I-Net staff and the <br />added liability and carrying costs for that amount of employees <br />Roseville City Council concern the use of space within City given other city <br />department space needs <br />The Roseville employee compensation plan lags behind the market for other local <br />governments and especially with LOGIS, a joint powers entity that provides IT <br />services to many local governments in the Twin Cities. LOGIS has recruited <br />several Metro I-Net staff members over the past couple of years <br />As a result of the Roseville compensation plan and organizational structure, it is <br />not possible to create the necessary executive leadership to guide the large $3.5 <br />million Metro I-Net enterprise <br /> <br />